Zhang Jin actually did not agree with Duke Guo accepting a disciple.
No matter how much you like him, you can just send someone to give him guidance and take care of you. Why should you accept him as a disciple?
Even if I want to teach him the marksmanship, I have learned it from the Duke of Guo since he was a child. I can teach the kid a thing or two. It is enough to let Zhang Liang and Zhang Dong teach him. Why bother to have the Duke of Guo do it himself?
But he did not dare to refute the Duke's order, and told his two sons to keep an eye on the two guards beside the eldest son of the Mu family, while he went to check on the Huo family himself.
Just like what the Duke of Guo said, if this Huo family is someone who cannot be helped, and has a bad character, he will definitely help the Duke of Guo to keep a close eye on him and prevent such people from getting close to the country again.
Father-in-law.
Nowadays, not only adults can pretend, but also children.
He must investigate carefully. Bad people will never let him get close to the Duke.
But the more Zhang Jin checked, the more surprised he became. How could this be an ordinary people's home? Although the family only lived in the outer city, they had grown from being a small fisherman with no shelter from the wind and rain to relying on a boat to have so many industries today.
?
Not only did he buy a house and a village, he also had a workshop, a business name in the capital, and dozens of boats!
Is this a family fortune that ordinary people can easily save? Is this a family fortune that can be saved with just a small fishing boat?
The more Zhang Jin checked, the more surprised he became. He didn't come back to his senses for a long time. The Duke's Mansion also had many properties. The old lady and the three wives all had properties, but some of the shops were not in business, were resold or closed down. How did Guangfeng Water get started?
of?
Can you do it without any connections behind you?
Fearing that there was someone behind this family, a mysterious figure unknown to the Duke of the State, Zhang Jin investigated carefully for several days, but found nothing. Zhang Jin was extremely confused.
How did a small fisherman's family get started?
Now he has even started a sea trade business, running more than just one line!
Zhang Jin endured his surprise and squatted at the door of the school when he saw the child named Huo Nian. At first glance, he thought the child was very kind. After seeing him for a few more days, he actually liked the child more and more.
I couldn't help but follow behind him.
Huo Nian also knew that people were following him these days and came to see him, but he didn't care. Zhufeng noticed that Zhang Jin was following Huo Nian, but he only glanced at him and saw that he had no ill intentions, so he didn't care.
So Zhang Jin followed him all the way to Qionghua Lane.
It's winter, and Grandma Ma is worrying about Huo Xi and Huo Nian's winter clothes. She went to the weaving mill to pick out some pieces of fabric from her own weaving mill and come back to make some clothes for the two siblings. He Ningxiu was holding several pieces.
Clothes go home.
Two groups of people happened to meet in the alley.
"Mommy, Aunt Xiu!"
"Hey, Master, are you out of school?"
"Yeah." Huo Nian pulled Mu Jie and ran to greet them. Zhufeng took Bao Kang forward and took the cloth from their hands.
Ningxiu touched Huo Nian's face and then his hands, fearing that he would get cold. "It's getting cold, so wear more clothes to avoid catching a cold."
"I'm not cold. I just finished practicing martial arts and my body is still warm."
Mu Jie also leaned over and received a loving touch from Mother Ma, "Mom, do you want to take the fabric back to make clothes? Do you have any Jie'er?"
Mother Ma smiled and said: "Yes, Jie'er is so good and sensible, how could there be no Jie'er."
Mu Jie jumped up with joy when he heard this: "Thank you, mama!" Although he had no shortage of clothes and the house sent him clothes and food every three days, he just liked and enjoyed this care.
Huo Xizhi knew that the child was sensitive, so he also ordered Yang and everyone in the family, including Huo Nian and An An, to have Mu Jie's share. So now that the family wants to make clothes, they must also make him a share.
Two groups of people walked home talking and laughing.
It wasn't until the person disappeared that Zhang Jin stepped out. He looked confused, why was Ningxiu in the Huo family? Is she a slave or a relative of the Huo family?
Why does Huo Nian call her Aunt Xiu? She looks very familiar, isn't she a slave? That's Ningxiu, right?
Zhang Jin felt that he had not admitted his mistake, it was Ningxiu. Even though so many years had passed, he would never admit his mistake about Ningxiu who was next to Mrs. Li and her maid.
He liked Ningxiu quite a bit at first, and even asked his wife to marry Ningxiu, but Ningxiu already had a sweetheart at that time, so he gave up on it.
Later, he got married, and then Mrs. Li also let Ningxiu get married. When Mrs. Li was there, Ningxiu often came to the house to see Mrs. Li, and he occasionally saw her. But then Mrs. Li disappeared.
He never saw her again.
Why is she in the Huo family now? Didn't she get a good title at the beginning?
Zhang Jin secretly inquired for a few more days and found that Ningxiu's whole family was in the Huo family. And she was also in charge of the Huo family's weaving workshop. Did something happen later that made her leave her citizenship and bring her whole family in?
A servant of the Huo family.
Zhang Jin plans to find an opportunity to meet Ningxiu and learn about the Huo family from her mouth.
After all, everyone worked under the same roof in the past. For the sake of old friends, Ningxiu will definitely tell the truth to him, which is more authentic and reliable than him asking about the Huo family from the side.
But before Zhang Jin took action, Wu from the British government saw someone over there.
"Who wants to see me?"
"A young woman. She said she came from Songjiang. She said she had something important to tell Madam." The servant went to Mrs. Wu to report.
"No little woman is worthy of coming to see me. Don't I see too many people every day? Cats and dogs all come to see me, I can't see enough? Who comes to see me for something?"
Wu frowned and said without raising her head while choosing clothing materials and jewelry.
After hearing this, the mother-in-law beside Mrs. Wu waved her hands to the young man who came to report, "Send him away quickly. Everyone else is coming to see Madam. Didn't you see that Madam is busy? Where can I find that screwdriver?"
people."
"Yes. I'm just going to send them away." The boy guarding the door looked frightened. He was afraid that the Duke's wife would be angry and wanted to strike a blow, so he ran away in a hurry.
"Mother, I want this one!" Zhang Biyao pointed to the jewelry album, her eyes shining, wishing she could have a set of every kind of jewelry on it.
"You can only choose one set."
"No, no, no, I have to choose two sets!" Zhang Biyao refused. He glanced sideways at Bizhu, Biyue, and Biko who were standing aside. Her father said that each person can make one set of clothes and one set of jewelry, but she is the legitimate daughter.
She is her father's only legitimate daughter, how can she be the same as them?
He continued to grind: "Mom, the New Year is coming soon. There are so many banquets during the New Year. How can I make a set of jewelry? When my daughter goes out, if she wears the same clothes and the same jewelry every day, won't others laugh at our Duke's Mansion?
It’s not a joke, mother!”
"Why do people laugh at me?"
"My mother is the wife of a princess. She can't even spare the money to make jewelry for her own daughter. Don't others still laugh at my mother for not being able to get enough money?"
As soon as she heard about the middle feed, Mrs. Wu gritted her teeth with hatred.
Damn old woman! She is already the Duke's wife, and the middle-income family has not yet been handed over to her. Do you want to move all the Duke's property to the second and third bedrooms?
"Do it, make two sets of clothes. Make two sets of clothes!"
Zhang Bizhu's eyes flashed: "Mom, let us sisters each make two sets."
Seeing Mrs. Wu looking at her, she was not afraid. She covered her handkerchief and smiled and said: "Second sister is right. If we sisters wear old clothes and jewelry when we go out during the New Year, others don't know that my father is against extravagance, but they only think that my mother is
He can't manage the house well and is stingy with his children."
Wu gave her a determined look and said, "Do it, do it all. One person does two sets."
Anyway, it was the father-in-law who paid for it, and he didn't take it out of her pocket. It just made things difficult for the old woman. They only needed one set of two and three bedrooms, but they wanted two sets for the big house.
"Thank you mother!"
"Thank you, mother!" Biyue and Bigui both had happy faces as they thanked Mrs. Wu.
At the door of the British Duke's Mansion, the young man heard Wu's words and was about to drive away the little woman at the door.